Schrafinator writes:
He is not only coherent 10 years ago but is downright articulate. He is able to string long sentences together into entire paragraphs that convey fairly complex ideas. He is energetic and confident and dynamic. He also clearly has memorized a great deal of information and he never refers to notes. IOW, he appears to have his shit together
It's really quite strikingly different to how utterly awful a public speaker he is, and has been for his entire presidential career.
I think he is a fall guy. I think that the neocon agenda purposefully manipulates public opinion by having Dubya appear to be so dumb that all blame and attention and outrage is focused on him as an inept buffoon when the real damage is occurring behind the scenes.
Bush is like the little man behind the curtain...a figurehead whom serves as a distraction.